Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

Christianity ( from the and the Latin suffix-itas ) is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings.

Thus the harmonisation was replaced in the 5th century by the canonical four gospels individually, in the Peshitta version, whose Syriac text nevertheless contains many Diatessaronic readings.

Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.

Other students have noted a range of textual similarities between passages in the Gospel of Barnabas, and variously the texts of a series of late medieval vernacular harmonies of the four canonical gospels ( in Middle English and Middle Dutch, but especially in Middle Italian ); which are all speculated as deriving from a lost Vetus Latina version of the Diatessaron of Tatian.

* a layer derived from earlier source materials, almost certainly transmitted to the vernacular author / translator in Latin ; and comprising, at the least, those extensive passages in the Gospel of Barnabas that closely parallel pericopes in the canonical gospels ; but whose underlying text appears markedly distinct from that of the late medieval Latin Vulgate ( as for instance in the alternative version of the Lord's Prayer in chapter 37, which includes a concluding doxology, contrary to the Vulgate text, but in accordance with the Diatessaron and many other early variant traditions );

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

In consequence, no reliance can be placed on any text in the Christian tradition ( including the four canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament ) as truly representing the teachings of Jesus.

This canonical account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the three synoptic gospels.

However, most contemporary scholars now regard it as the earliest of the canonical gospels ( c 70 ).

The Gospel According to Matthew (, to euangelion kata Matthaion ) ( Gospel of Matthew or simply Matthew ) is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament.

This account is fourth of the canonical gospels, after the synoptics Matthew, Mark and Luke.

In the standard order of the canonical gospels, John is fourth, after the three interrelated synoptic gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke.

The most widely-known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Christianity traditionally places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system.

Christians teach that the four canonical gospels are an “ accurate and authoritative ” representation of the life of Jesus.

The authors of the four canonical Christian gospels are known as the four evangelists.

Irenaeus is the earliest witness to recognition of the canonical character of all four gospels.

All four canonical gospels relate John's preaching and baptism in the River Jordan.

Scholar Brooke Westcott notes that this reference to the author of the single prophetic book of the New Testament illustrates the distinction Justin made between the role of prophecy and fulfillment quotations from the gospels, as Justin does not mention any of the individual canonical gospels by name.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

The most common geometric arrangement is where some convex polyhedron is in its canonical form, which is to say that the all its edges must be tangent to a certain sphere whose centre coincides with the centre of gravity ( average position ) of the tangent points.

We say that a formula or a set X of formulas is canonical with respect to a property P of Kripke frames, if

Other fictional universes, like the Ring of Fire series, actively court canonical stimulus from fans, but gate and control the changes through a formalized process and the final say of the editor and universe creator.

Though as of yet there has been little critical attention paid to the subject, it is not inaccurate to say that Chrétien was influenced by the changing face of secular and canonical law in the twelfth century.

Canon 135 of the same Code of Canon Law obliged him to say all the canonical hours of the Divine Office ( Liturgy of the Hours or Breviary ).

" Canon C. 26 stipulates that " Every clerk ( cleric ) in Holy Orders is under obligation, not being let ( prevented ) by sickness or some other urgent cause, to say daily the Morning and Evening Prayer ...." In other Anglican provinces, the Daily Office is not a canonical obligation but is strongly encouraged.

Thus they say for example that the Digha reciters did regard 15 as canonical but counted it as part of 10 instead of a separate book.

Few modern scholars accept this, and some scholars claim that the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans is a later pastiche, while many say it could be the canonical Epistle to the Ephesians in the Bible.

We might also quote the words of Bishop Thomas De Burgo, who, in his " Hibernia Dominicana ", does not hesitate to say that St. Patrick was a canon regular, and that, having preached the Christian faith in Ireland, he established there many monasteries of the canonical institute.

* Chapters 8-19 regulate the Divine Office, the Godly work to which " nothing is to be preferred ", namely the eight canonical hours.

According to Milner, " There is nothing canonical about the choice of the basic combinators, even though they were chosen with great attention to economy.

A text in Callinicus ( between 447 and 450 ), first introduced in Father Pargoire's argument, informs us that between Vespers and the Night Office there was celebrated in the East a canonical Hour called in this text prothypnia, because it preceded the first sleep, being nothing other than what the Greeks today call apodeipnon, on account of the meal it follows ( see Compline in Byzantine usage, below ).

The majority of the canonical texts are drawn from the Sutta Pitaka, with a smaller selection of works dealing with the Vinaya Pitaka, and little or nothing from the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the commentaries.

Contrary to the canonical Christian Gospels, and in accordance with the Islamic view of Jesus, this later " Gospel of Barnabas " states that Jesus was not the son of God, but a prophet and messenger.

Little of Jesus ' childhood is recorded in the canonical Gospels, however infancy Gospels were popular in antiquity.

Christology ( from Greek Χριστός Khristós and ,-logia ) is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament.

There is only one instance where the Gospel of Barnabas might be understood as " correcting " a known canonical pericope, so as to record a prophecy by Jesus of the ( unnamed ) Messenger of God:

This passage corresponds closely with the canonical John 1: 19-30, except that in that passage, the words are spoken by John the Baptist ( in the Qur ' an ; Yahya ibn Zakariya ) and refer to Jesus.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

The repeated reference in the Gnostic texts of Mary as being loved by Jesus more than the others has been seen as supporting the theory that the Beloved Disciple in the canonical Gospel of John was originally Mary Magdalene, before being later redacted in the Gospel.

Mary Magdalene appears with more frequency than other women in the canonical Gospels and is shown as being a close follower of Jesus.

In fact, Nazareth was described negatively by the evangelists ; the Gospel of Mark argues that Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and therefore he could " do no mighty work there "; in the Gospel of Luke, the Nazarenes are portrayed as attempting to kill Jesus by throwing him off a cliff ; in the Gospel of Thomas, and in all four canonical gospels, we read the famous saying that " a prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

The feast commemorates Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels.

In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem takes place about a week before his Resurrection.

All four canonical gospels state that, during the Last Supper, Jesus foretold of Peter ’ s denial ( Saint Peter ) and that he would deny Christ three times before the cock ’ s crow.

The four canonical Gospels all state that the Last Supper took place towards the end of the week, after Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and that Jesus and his disciples shared a meal shortly before Jesus was crucified at the end of that week.

The last meal that Jesus shared with his disciples is described in all four canonical Gospels, namely in Matthew 26: 17-30, Mark 14: 12-26, Luke 22: 7-39 and John 13: 1-17: 26.

Among some Orthodox monastics ( and occasionally other faithful ), the canonical hours and preparation for Holy Communion may be replaced by praying the Jesus Prayer a specified number of times dependent on the service being replaced.

* The crucifixion of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth's death by crucifixion by Pontius Pilate ( most likely in AD 30 or 33 ), recounted in the four first-century canonical Gospels, is referred to repeatedly as something well known in the earlier letters of Saint Paul, for instance, five times in his First Letter to the Corinthians, written in AD 57 ( 1: 13, 1: 18, 1: 23, 2: 2, 2: 8 ).